Plumas County, CA History
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta Jul 2009
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Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties
with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850, Farriss & Smith , 1882, San Francisco.
SENATORS AND ASSEMBLYMEN
When Plumas county was cut off from Butte it still formed, with the
mother country, the fourteenth district, of which Elisha T. Peck was the
senator, holding over till 1855, and John B. McGee, Seneca Ewer. and Richard
Irwin, were the assemblymen, whose terms were just expiring. These gentlemen all
resided in Plumas county, save Seneca Ewer, and were instrumental in passing the
bill organizing this county. The Act of April 6, 1857, gave the fourteenth
district two senators and three assemblymen. A senator was elected from Butte
and Plumas on alternate years each, and the two counties alternated in electing
two assemblymen, the other choosing but one for the same session. By the Act of
March 16, 1874, Butte, Plumas, and Lassen were combined in the twenty-sixth
senatorial district, with one senator and two assemblymen, Butte to elect one of
the latter and Plumas and Lassen the other.
The senators who have represented the Plumas section of the district
have been as follows: Elisha T. Peck (1853-4); John B. McGee (1855-6); John
Coulter (1857); S. A. Ballou (1858-9); Richard Irwin (1860-1); Thomas B. Shannon
(1862); F. M. Smith (1863-6); John Conly (1867-70); David Boucher (1871-3);
George C. Perkins (1873-6); William H. Crane (1877-9); and William A. Cheney
(1879-82).
During the same time Plumas had been represented in the assembly by the
following gentlemen: Asa Kinney (1854); (1855) Ripley C. Kelley and Joseph
Winston; Richard Irwin (1856); (1857) S. A. Ballou and J. L. C. Sherwin; Thomas
B. Shannon (1858); (1859) Thomas B. Shannon and P. O. Hundley; Allen Wood
(1860); Thomas B. Shannon (1861); M. D. Howell (1862); Robert A. Clark (1863);
John D. Goodwin (1865); John R. Buckbee (1867); John Lambert (1869); B. W.
Barnes (1871); James D. Byers (1873); John S. Chapman (1875); James H. Whitlock
(1877); Charles Mulholland (1879); and William W. Kellogg (1880). [See
Biographies].